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Perhaps the tide is finally turning against complex web frameworks.

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Fountain at Cosmic on 4th. I should go here more often. ☕️

[Aaron Ross Powell] ""First, there’s what I’ve referred to in the past as the “Quillette Effect.” Because we believe our own ideas are correct (or else we wouldn’t believe them), we tend to think that people who share our ideas are correct, as well." This wh...

There’s an apocryphal story about Ernest Shackleton putting an ad in the newspaper that read: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. If you’ve read the book Endurance by Alfred Lansing, you know how that went. … Continue reading People Wanted →

You get an AI! You get an AI! Starting to enable automatic photo keywords and search for all paid customers, no longer requiring Micro.blog Premium. Check out the video on YouTube here, recorded a few months ago. Now available to everyone. (I reserve the right to tweak this if it bankrupts me.)

Tumblr’s getting started on porting the backend to WordPress:

We acquired Tumblr to benefit from its differences and strengths, not to water it down. We love Tumblr’s streamlined posting experience and its current product direction. We’re not changing that. We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside.

I hope they blog about the process… Should be interesting.

Years ago, mostly by accident, I started using green for block quotes in Markdown. Screenshot below. It’s weird because I never use green in actual published blog themes or Micro.blog on the web. I did a quick survey of other Markdown apps for inspiration and can’t really find a better style.

Wednesday session

In the next scene, Wordle Kitty, lithe and slender, and fiercely cute, is doing an AMA on Reddit. One of the questions asks if Wordle Kitty knows anyone in the US Government. "I don't know anyone in the US Government," she said, "but I do know their kittens!" she concluded. This scene is shown on the front page of the NY Times along with the headline "Wordle Kitty is leading an insurrection in DC, other kittens are colluding!"

I was hoping the new iPhone Pro would have 12 GB of RAM. Sticking with 8 GB is enough for small AI models, but doesn’t seem as future-proof as the new Google Pixel at 16 GB. Apples to oranges? Dunno, that’s a really big difference.

An idea for the Harris campaign. Let me buy some swag and have it sent to 10 of my best friends, esp ones who live in swing states. Plus you get the names and contact info for people at least one of your supporters thought would be a potential Harris voter. I'd send something less presumptuous like When We Fight We Win stickers. Another related idea, let me buy a whole set of promotional materials, kind of like the gift baskets they sell at Zabar's.

Wow, has it really been a full year since the last Epilogue release for Android? Today I’ve gathered up all the recent changes and shipped them on Android, available at Google Play here. Screenshots still out of date, but it’s got the new icon and mostly the same features as iOS.

Nice write-up from Chris Enns on using Micro.blog for hosting short podcasts and adding stats with OP3.

Today Automattic announced that they're converting Tumblr, which they acquired in 2019, to run on WordPress as its foundation. This could get a simple colorful user-friendly interface for WordPress, something it's needed for a long time. WordPress does everything in its UI, Tumblr has its UI better organized for writers and more casual users. If they can move in this direction, it seems that WordPress could be large part of the emerging social web.

Working in Android and Google Play a bunch this week. It’s just similar enough to the Apple ecosystem to feel like I know what I’m doing, even when I get lost in the weeds of compiler errors and dependencies changing out from under me.

[Emily Peck at Axios] "70% of Americans said they approved of unions, per Gallup's most recent poll, conducted in August." This represents a giant change in American society: labor unions haven't been this popular since 1967. But at the same time, union memb...

Some things I’ve learned about me and writing recently: I’m impossibly distractible. It’s a learned behavior: I check all my social networks, take a look at my email, fall down Wikipedia rabbit holes. Writing on the iPad seems to help me a lot. Those things are there too,...

Note to the Harris campaign: This Google search should return a complete list of your ads. Or a pointer to a site with a complete list of your ads. I want to make sure everyone who follows me sees every one of them! Let us help you help us.

We’ve got a new minor update to Epilogue for iOS ready. This release focuses on the context menu in the book details screen. Many people didn’t know the menu was there. Now there’s an ellipsis button to make it more discoverable, plus a couple other additions to the menu.

If you’re reading these HTML element guides alphabetically, you will have already read about <article> and learned what a sectioning element is. If you’re embracing chaos and reading these element guides in a random order, then I salute you and wish you the best of luc...